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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
Willa Cather
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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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